Daniel Clarke-Serret is a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, a teacher, and a public intellectual who writes across Britain, Spain, and Israel. He is Senior Fellow and Democracy Analyst at Section 1, a Canadian non-partisan democracy and civics think tank, where his brief covers the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Israel.
His book Pax Arabica inverts the anti-colonial account of the Middle East. Clarke-Serret identifies an Arabized-Islamic imperial project, running through both pan-Arab nationalism and Islamism, as the power structure that has suppressed the region’s minorities, and he reads Israel as the most serious obstacle to imperial uniformity. The book runs in two movements. “Babel” diagnoses the enforcement system and treats it as a modern construction carried by democratic institutions and NGO vocabulary. “Eden” sets out what stabilizes: nation-states, deterrence, and accurate terminology. Pax Arabica carries a foreword by Nachum Kaplan and contributions from Khaled Salih.
What the book recovers is the list of communities the Western account leaves out — Jews across the Middle East and North Africa, Kurds, Yazidis, Druze, Christians, and Black Africans under Arab rule. Mitzpe reviewed Pax Arabica in Israel Brief in January 2026.
Clarke-Serret writes Guerre and Shalom, a Substack running to hundreds of pieces on public affairs, geopolitics, and the present wars. He serializes books there as well: Pax Arabica first reached readers in that form, and Rooted Truth has run there in serial under Uri Zehavi’s byline. He also writes The Rage, blogs at The Times of Israel, and has written on Israel for Spanish media since October 2023.
He teaches French and Spanish, has worked in British and Spanish schools at primary and secondary level, and has advised on mathematics instruction in both countries. His poetry took Spillwords’ Publication of the Month in July 2023 and a place on the shortlist for its 2024 Publication of the Year.
Clarke-Serret’s work at Mitzpe extends the institute’s reporting into Britain and Western Europe. Much of the argument over Israel there is conducted in vocabulary its own participants have never examined, and recovering those definitions is prior to winning anything with them. That is the work Clarke-Serret was already doing when Mitzpe found him.